At The Cedars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDDBB F BG BBGBHH GGIIJJJGGG KIILMLNOGB PPGGQQRRSSTT AUAUGCV ABABWXXW AYBGCYou had two girls Baptiste | A |
One is Virginie | B |
Hold hard Baptiste | A |
Listen to me | C |
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The whole drive was jammed | D |
In that bend at the Cedars | E |
The rapids were dammed | D |
With the logs tight rammed | D |
And crammed you might know | B |
The Devil had clinched them below | B |
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We worked three days not a budge | F |
'She's as tight as a wedge on the ledge ' | - |
Says our foreman | B |
'Mon Dieu boys look here | G |
We must get this thing clear ' | - |
He cursed at the men | B |
And we went for it then | B |
With our cant dogs arow | G |
We just gave he yo ho | B |
When she gave a big shove | H |
From above | H |
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The gang yelled and tore | G |
For the shore | G |
The logs gave a grind | I |
Like a wolf's jaws behind | I |
And as quick as a flash | J |
With a shove and a crash | J |
They were down in a mash | J |
But I and ten more | G |
All but Isa c Dufour | G |
Were ashore | G |
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He leaped on a log in the front of the rush | K |
And shot out from the bind | I |
While the jam roared behind | I |
As he floated along | L |
He balanced his pole | M |
And tossed us a song | L |
But just as we cheered | N |
Up darted a log from the bottom | O |
Leaped thirty feet square and fair | G |
And came down on his own | B |
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He went up like a block | P |
With the shock | P |
And when he was there | G |
In the air | G |
Kissed his hand | Q |
To the land | Q |
When he dropped | R |
My heart stopped | R |
For the first logs had caught him | S |
And crushed him | S |
When he rose in his place | T |
There was blood on his face | T |
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There were some girls Baptiste | A |
Picking berries on the hillside | U |
Where the river curls Baptiste | A |
You know on the still side | U |
One was down by the water | G |
She saw Isa c | C |
Fall back | V |
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She did not scream Baptiste | A |
She launched her canoe | B |
It did seem Baptiste | A |
That she wanted to die too | B |
For before you could think | W |
The birch cracked like a shell | X |
In that rush of hell | X |
And I saw them both sink | W |
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Baptiste | A |
He had two girls | Y |
One is Virginie | B |
What God calls the other | G |
Is not known to me | C |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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